Factors Affecting the Development of Educator's Entrepreneurial Skills at Agricultural and Technical Colleges in Sari, Iran

Entrepreneurial skills are identified as a socity priority because of their impact on people’s economic, personal and social lives. The purpose of this research is to investigate factors affecting on the development of entrepreneurial skills among educators at agricultural technical colleges in Sari Township. Methodologically, this research is a casual-relation and applied study. The statistical population comprised 531 agricultural educators at Agricultural Technical Colleges in Sari Township. According to the Cochran formula, a sample size of 230 was selected using stratified random sampling method. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. The content validity of which was approved by agricultural extension experts at Islamic Azad University and its reliability was estimated to be 0.90 using ordinal theta coeficint. SPSSWin16 used the process data. The analysed results showed that approximately, 63.5% of respondents ranked their entrepreneurial skills at high level and 13% considered it at intermediate level. Results indicated that the variables; number of in-service course, family size, personality factors, educational factors, management factors and entrepreneurial spirit had a significant positive correlation (P=0.01) with entrepreneurial skills. Also economic factors have a significant positive correlation (P=0.05) with entrepreneurial skills. So, these variables have positive impact on development of educators’ entrepreneurial skills. Based on ordinal regression findings five variables including; number of educational course, family size, personality factors, management factors and entrepreneurial spirit were influencing on the probability of estimating the educators entrepreneurial skills level..